• Escape from the afternoon heat on the Ohio State Fair midway with a concert by the Cab Calloway Orchestra at

1 p.m. Tuesday in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center, I-71 and E. 17th Avenue. Admission is free with fair admission (reserved seat tickets available at 8 a.m. the day of the show). Call 614-644-3247 or visit www.ohio

statefair.com.

• The jazz-funk ensemble fo/mo/deep will present a sizzling evening of music at

8 p.m. Thursday in the McConnell Arts Center, 777 Evening St., Worthington. Tickets cost $8, or $10 the day of the show, $5 for students and free for ages 12 and younger. Call 614-431-0329 or visit www. mcconnellarts.org.

• Get sweeter and bubbly with rock-tinged adult-contemporary songwriters Gavin DeGraw and Colbie Caillat, each of whom released new material last year, during the Ohio State Fair at 7:30 tonight in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center, I-71 and E. 17th Avenue. Tickets cost $25. Call 614-644-3247 or visit www.

• The rising British alt-rock trio Animal Kingdom will let loose on Tuesday in the Basement, 391 Neil Ave. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $10, or $12 the day of the show. Call 614-461-5483 or visit www. promowestlive.com.

• The Oregon indie-folk collective Blind Pilot will offer an all-ages concert sponsored by WCBE (90.5 FM) on Tuesday in the Newport Music Hall, 1722 N. High St. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $17, or $20 the day of the show.

• It’s madness, we tell you! Catch the anthem-heavy rockers of Evanescence — along with Chevelle, Halestorm and others — during the Carnival of Madness tour, set to wreak havoc on Wednesday in the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, 405 Neil Ave. Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35. Call 614-461-5483 or visit www.promowestlive.

com.

• The epic and enduring rock band Boston, joined by special guest Kansas, will take listeners back at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center. Tickets cost $30. Call 614-644-3247 or visit www.

ohiostatefair.com.

• Hear the true definition of sibling harmony with the Band Perry — whose ballad If I Die Young topped the charts in 2010 — at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center. Tickets cost $28. Call 614-644-3247 or visit www.ohiostatefair.com.

• The Australian indie-rockers of the Temper Trap, who found a commercial hit with the single Sweet Disposition and last month released a sophomore effort, will perform on Thursday in the Newport Music Hall. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets cost $20, or $22 the day of the show. Call 614-461-5483 or visit www.promowest live.com.

• Swedish indie-folk songwriter Kristian Matsson, known onstage as the Tallest Man on Earth, will scale new heights at 9 p.m. Thursday in the Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St. The show is sold out.

• Plenty of music, dancing and eats will be on tap at the Dublin Irish Festival, now in its 25th year. Bands — set to include Gaelic Storm, T With the Maggies, Eileen Ivers and many others — will entertain Friday through Sunday in Coffman Park, 5200 Emerald Parkway, Dublin. Tickets cost $9, or $10 at the gates ($8 for senior citizens, military personnel and students; $22 weekend passes offered only in advance). Call 614-410-4545 or visit www.dublinirish

festival.org.

• The smooth 34-year-old R&B-pop vocalist known as the-Dream will share a bill with singer Miguel at 7 p.m. Friday in the Celeste Center at the Ohio Expo Center. Tickets cost $20. Call 614-644-3247 or visit www.ohiostatefair.com.

• CATCO will present Avenue Q , the puppet musical about young adults struggling with careers and relationships, at

8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. next Sunday — and through Aug. 19 — in the Riffe Center’s Studio One Theatre, 77 S. High St. Discount previews will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday and 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Tickets to the show, suggested for mature audiences, cost $11.50 to $45. Call 614-469-0939 or visit www.catcoistheatre.org and Ticketmaster outlets.

• Theatre Columbus State will present the the Neil Simon comedy The Good Doctor at

• Actors’ Theatre will end its summer season with the Carlo Goldoni farce The Servant of Two Masters at 8 p.m. Thursday through next Sunday — and Thursdays through Sundays through Sept. 2 — in the Schiller Park amphitheater, German Village. Admission is free, but donations are requested. Call 614-444-6888 or visit www.theactorstheatre. org.

• Imagine Productions of Columbus will present Hairspray, the bouncy Broadway musical about a teen dance show in the early 1960s, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday and 4 p.m. next Sunday — and 7:30 p.m. Aug.?8, 10-11 and 4 p.m. Aug.?12 — in the Wall Street Night Club, 144 N. Wall St. Tickets, limited to adults except for the Sunday matinees, cost $16. Call 614-398-1110 or visit www.imagine columbus.com.

I Want My Mamma , Is Said’s children’s play about children having problems on a weekend trip into the mountains, at 7:30 p.m. Friday through next Sunday at Ama Vera’s Garden, 2457 Cleveland Ave. Admission is free. For more information, call 614-447-8810 or 614-372-8480.

• AKip Productions will present My Other Voice , a new play by former Gahanna resident Alex Kip about his battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Gahanna Lincoln High School, 160 S. Hamilton Rd., Gahanna. Tickets cost $15. Call 614-832-8304 or visit www.akipprod.com.